If Aurangzeb advised Modi
The ongoing agitation by the farmers sees recent laws as pro big business.
Jawed Naqvi
As a peasant loves his land
Chatterjee has left behind a rich tapestry of memories from the world of movies, theatre and television.
Can’t be objective on fascism
The spectacular promise of the free world has proved to be a myth.
BJP in a fix in close Bihar race
Even as the BJP is tipped to make spectacular gains in state polls in Bihar, this success could be its undoing, analysts say.
More tangled than her tresses
There are raging problems that are not of Trump’s making, but are rooted instead in domestic and regional habits.
Cheering a lost revolution
Where nationalist zeal was concerned, Asmi Sahib was bereft of any. This was not always possible for others.
Traders of dubious nationalism
What gives the right wing the right to muscle its way to transgress the constitutional limits at will?
Can we ask the woman, first?
It’s tempting to believe that given half a chance women would be leading the fight against their caste and religious oppressors.
India has sent feelers for talks: Pakistan
In an interview with Karan Thapar, PM’s aide says prime minister and army chief desire peace with India.
Partition short-changed the poor
Many Indians see fascism as some rarefied doctrine of racial and religious hatred not hinged in the logic of hard economics.
The mermaid and the drunks
The action-reaction approach posits that if Muslims in India somehow behaved better publicly and privately, the bias against them
Jaswant Singh, counterfactually
Had history not played truant that day in Agra, there would be a hoard of money available for healthcare and education for both
Bhagat Singh’s India in ferment
The voracious reader evolved with new knowledge and newer experiences, and grew as a fearless partisan.
Wajid Ali Shah’s great grandson dies of Covid-19
NEW DELHI: The great grandson of Awadh’s last king Nawab Wajid Ali Shah and grandson of Nawab Birjis Qadr, Prince...
Impunity isn’t exactly popularity
Friends condole with friends with great concern that India has gone fascist.
To draw the battle lines now
Are the opposition in India for a war with China or are they gloating over a stick they may have found to beat a Teflon rival
Changing an unchanging world
Skin-deep modernity and deep-rooted atavism go hand in hand in many current societies, and India is no exception.
A tale of misleading names
Prashant Bhushan knows he cannot fight the fight alone. Who then could be his allies to cover the flanks?
Not Shia, not Sunni, not Jewish
Where do Shia-Sunni theorists disappear when Shia Iran supports predominantly Sunni Palestine envisaging Jerusalem as its capital?
Modi blows hot and cold at neighbours
Indian PM claims his soldiers gave a befitting reply “from LoC to LAC” to those who attempted to transgress India’s borders.